The Glass Menagerie

It has been many, many years since I've read or seen Tennessee William's play "The Glass Menagerie..." but as I recall there is a character in the play who is enchanted by a set of glass figurines... she is somewhat spellbound by them and tends to live her life fixed upon them....she is unable to see through them, to see through her enchantment with them...the audience knows and sees but she is not able to see for herself...

This precept, this precept about anger includes our enchantment with the figurines in our world from what Shantideva calls the "little cares" to what we imagine to be the "big cares." We become spellbound in our mind, wanting the moments of our lives to reflect what we have in our minds, from our conditions and habits and when it does not we get angry...the anger protects us from falling through and seeing through to disenchantment....it is there where we are actually free, actually sober enough, to stay with the real situations. Anger is a surface for the enchantment below. Anger is a little bell, a clacker to take a look around for the spellbinding going on in your heart and mind.